Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-windows-netbook-hardware...
http://apcmag.com/microsoft-revises-netbook-hardware-spec-for-windo...
How does Microsoft get to specify a hardware limit?
Hmmmmm?
They do it by saying ... "beyond that limit, you cannot have Windos cheap".
Therefore, Microsoft sets the price of Windows to OEMs depending on what machines the OEMs want Windows for. It doesn't actually matter to Microsoft's costs one whit if an OEM wants to put Windows on small machine with one, two or three GB of RAM ... but Microsoft varies the price to the OEM tremendously based on exactly that.
Therefore, there is no OEM price for Windows based on what it cost Microsoft to produce. It is based only on how Microsoft wants to manipulate the market. Microsoft manipulates the OEMs using its price to OEMs. That much is easily shown.
This is not illegal AFAIK, but it does tell you what goes on, and based on the market reality (where no vendor displays Windows machines and Ubuntu machines on the same hardware side-by-side in the same store) ... draw your own conclusions.